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Well-Being
Can You Make Your Wellness Program Go Viral?
Whether it’s a trending hashtag or a popular kitten-playing-the-piano video, an idea that goes viral grows exponentially through social sharing. A concept that starts with an individual can spread like wildfire through Westeros (#gameofthrones for the uninitiated). Your wellness program can benefit from the same viral thinking that created a star out of a mom Read More
4 Must-Haves for Employee Wellness Programs
Editor’s Note: Our second guest blogger for this month is Kembre Roberts, Manager for Employee Wellness at Southwest Airlines. She is no stranger to the corporate wellness world— before joining Southwest Airlines in 2011, her first 10 years in the industry were focused on designing corporate wellness initiatives and linking health plan savings to healthy lifestyles. Read More
How to Help Employees Make Wellness Changes That Stick
GPS tracking. Sleep monitoring. Step counting. With all their bells and whistles packaged in sleek, fashionable designs, it’s no surprise that fitness trackers such as Fitbit, Garmin and Jawbone have established such a strong presence in the world of wellness. Yet, while these products can effectively track various aspects of someone’s day — such as Read More
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon?
Why You Might Be Overtraining Your Team’s Well-Being and What to Do About It
It actually happens more than you might think. A well-intentioned personal trainer creates a training program and unknowingly overestimates what his or her client can handle. The trainer creates a program to challenge the client’s mind and body to optimally perform—to lose weight, to become stronger, to increase flexibility or to achieve some other performance Read More
7 Tips to Change and Maintain Healthier Habits
A Guest Blog from Dr. Paul L. Marciano, Ph.D.
We all have habits—some good, some bad and some that we (quite honestly) don’t even think or care too much about. When we think about our bad habits and how we want to change our ways (e.g., to save money, read more, eat healthier, exercise more, stop smoking, etc.), we start out feeling very motivated Read More